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Twinkling Stars
Category: Arts and Entertainment Asked by: shoaib-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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24 Sep 2006 23:05 PDT
Expires: 24 Oct 2006 23:05 PDT Question ID: 768144 |
I want to mention that there are places on this Earth planet where people can see "splash of Stars" in the sky at night for example Kashmir state(paradise on Earth) so therefore provide to me any best photos of splash of stars seen at the night sky. Note : By splash of stars above I mean that night sky should be "full of glittering and twinkling stars". |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: cynthia-ga on 25 Sep 2006 02:18 PDT |
Shoaib, I think the best images are from the Hubble Space Telescope: A Sky Full Of Glittering Jewels http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=17033 Full size image: http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/89/8154.JPG These were very cool and I thought you might enjoy them: Stargazing For Everyone http://www.stargazingforeveryone.com/ These folks will bring the stars to You! SpaceWeather.com http://hea-www.harvard.edu/hrc.ARCHIVE/2003/2003095.000000-2003095.240000/SpaceWeather/index.html ~~Cynthia |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: elids-ga on 25 Sep 2006 08:27 PDT |
I believe he wants to see a stary sky as seen from earth, a sky that is out of the ordinary. Almost any desert will provide that view, specially on moonless nights, the lack of humidity and cold nights create the ideal conditions necessary for this. Although I did not find pictures of this, remember that capturing stars on film unaided is almost impossible, you need time exposure and because of that beautiful pictures of stary skies are uncommon. Although you can get them with time exposure they do not represent what you see with the naked eye (ussually they are better, you get better results by adding more time). Here is a view that is rather uncommon, what is known as 'la Luna de Paita' or 'the Moon of Paita' Paita is a town on the Peruvian northern dessert, the dessert climate, the lattitude and the moisture of the Humbolt current conspire to create this very famous illusion, this IS NOT a digitally enhanced picture, this is a natural phenomena. http://gallada.tripod.com/images/paita-lunallena.jpg |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: shoaib-ga on 26 Sep 2006 19:50 PDT |
Cynthia commenter thanks for your above help but I also want to know that splash of stars full of glittering and twinkling stars seen at the night sky can also be seen with the 'naked eye' anywhere on the Earth planet in the night sky ?? Cynthia commenter thanks for your above help from Shoaib. |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: cynthia-ga on 26 Sep 2006 23:06 PDT |
Shoaib, You need to travel for it, but luckily --not as far as one might think. The answer to your question is ...the best place in the world to gaze at stars and see very bright twinkling --is anywhere there is a really dark sky. To locate a really dark sky, you need open wilderness, far far away from any city and "light pollution" : REFERENCE: What is the best place in the world for star watching? http://ask.yahoo.com/20031230.html When it comes to a more casual brand of stargazing, the rule of thumb is the further you are removed from light pollution, the better. Street and city lights create a haze in the sky that diminishes the brilliance of the stars. Venture to the middle of desert or a remote island, and stars appear much brighter to the naked eye. Depending on where you live in the world, your best bet is to head for the country. Here's how you can locate dark skies near you: Dark Sky Finder?A Web Tool for Stargazing http://www.darksky.org/darksky/ What Is Star Gazer? (Podcast and streaming video available) http://www.jackstargazer.com/ ..." "Star Gazer" is the world's only weekly television series on naked eye astronomy..." ===================================== INTERESTING NAKED EYE ASTRONOMY LINKS ===================================== Welcome to Heavens-Above http://www.heavens-above.com/ Naked Eye Stargazing, Learning the Sky http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stars/stareye.html Astronomy Without a Telescope http://www.astronomynotes.com/nakedeye/chindex.htm Discover the Stars: Starwatching Using the Naked Eye, Binoculars, or a Telescope http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product/?item_no=65293&p=1010575 |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: jim_spinner-ga on 04 Oct 2006 08:39 PDT |
Perhaps you are asking about the Milky Way. This is the view of our own galaxy from inside. It can be truly spectacular from a dark site. Try http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/gallery/gallery.html |
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Re: Twinkling Stars
From: myoarin-ga on 04 Oct 2006 10:51 PDT |
Hi Shoaib, I didn't check all the links posted, but here are a couple of explanations of twinkling stars. The first one seems to be couple of photos that demonstrate the twinkling. (Well, it did the first time I opened the site.) http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000725.html http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/twinkle.shtml http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/twinkle.html Now, why do there seem to be places where seeing twinkling stars is more common? Kashmir is a good example: clean air and little ambient light at night, so one can see many many more stars than most of us city dwellers see - and when do we spend enough time out in the dark (real dark with NO lights anywhere within miles) for our eyes to really become adjusted to the dark? Most of us most places only see the brightest stars, not the sky full of stars that one can see in Kashmir or on the Big Sur coast of California. When you happen upon such a place on a moonless night, it's "WOW! a "splash of Stars". the heaven is full of them! My eight or nine year-old son's first remark when I got him out of the mobilehome on the Big Sur to see them was an awed: "Who made them?" Kind of lets one understand why earlier people had religious feelings about the sky/heaven. When we see a handful of stars in the sky, we don't spend enough time looking to experience their twinkling. But when the sky is full of them to see, the effect described in the websites seems to make them twinkle since there are so many to be seen at once that one notices the twinkling. Regards, Myoarin |
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